SIGNPOST OF THE OIL OLIGARCHY AND POLITICAL PARTY PARAMOUNTCY IN GUYANA

VREED-EN-HOOP (PEACE AND HOPE): SIGNPOST OF THE OIL OLIGARCHY AND POLITICAL PARTY PARAMOUNTCY IN GUYANA.

A priest once said with reference to a local bigwig in Guyana, an impoverished country perched on the northern shoulder of South America: “first you get on, then you get honest.” That is, you need to acquire wealth before you can be philanthropic. Little of that culture of philanthropy appears to have survived among the…

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ExxonMobil and other carpetbaggers will leave behind a degraded Atlantic Ocean and diminished marine life

ExxonMobil and other carpetbaggers will leave behind a degraded Atlantic Ocean and diminished marine life

The sheer organisational magnitude and efficiency of ExxonMobil as an industrial power was shown in the MARAD Notices to Mariners numbers 106 and 107 (2023) dated 12 June but only published on July 13 in your paper.  These Notices cover the near-shore laying of the pipe for the Gas-to-Energy project; previous MARAD Notices covered the…

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